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David Harrison

David Harrison is the CEO of the DG Murray Trust, a South African foundation with a strong focus on early childhood development, education and youth leadership for public innovation.

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We must keep Covid-19’s gains in education

COMMENT: The disaster regulations mandated zero-rating for some websites. Now it is time to expand this access

A mobile phone shop worker watches a televised broadcast. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Zero-rate mobile services for health, education and development now

Operators must work together — if each network picks which sites to zero-rate, access to information will be determined by the colour of a person’s sim card

We are not happy to be here because none of them [South Africans] want us in this country.

Slice of life: ‘South Africans beat us, burn us’

South Africans are not scared to tell us that even the president doesn’t want us here; that we should go back to where we belong.

Residents say Blikkiesdorp has become so violent that they have been forced to take refuge in the Central Methodist Mission Church in Cape Town. (David Harrison/M&G)

The Two Tales of ‘Tin Can Town’

An upsurge in violence in Blikkiesdorp is linked to residents competing for homes in a new housing scheme

Almost 80% of grade 4 pupils failed to reach the low international benchmark for reading and comprehension for that grade.

We do have solutions for SA’s reading crisis

Several excellent projects could be expanded immediately — for a meagre R500-million a year

Death of a ‘nice

Death of a ‘nice, kind girl’ rocks a community

“Noluvo was good; she liked other people. She was so kind and wasn’t hurting anybody,” a man tells me from behind his fence in Driftsands.

Somali spaza shop owners say that they can’t go to the police for help because they refuse to open a case as ‘they are foreigners’

Khayelitsha: ‘We beat them, we take their things by force’

Somalians and Ethiopians living in Khayelitsha say that they are a target 24 hours a day, while young locals say that jealousy triggers the violence.

The municipality has accrued billions of rand in wasteful spending, and more than 6 000 putrid bucket toilets

The buckets don’t stop here: Toilet trials and tribulations in the Cape

For the past nine months photographer David Harrison has been documenting sanitation issues in the informal settlements around Khayelitsha.

De Doorns strike: Media in the line of workers’ ire

Police and angry farmworkers have been fighting running battles in the wineland areas of De Doorns. But the battles were not only against the police.

Speaking to facts, not hearts

For a campaign whose tagline is "talk about it", retracting the billboard was a bitter pill to swallow. It wasn’t so much about loss of face as trying to reconcile the public…